Holiday Cheer

by Rochelle Alers, Shirley Hailstock, Angela Benson

Hailstock's "Invitation to Love" tells of a woman who is given a second chance with her ex-fiance at Christmas. In Alers' "Fresh Fruits", an art expert falls for the head of a Manhattan private school while planning a Kwnazaa extravaganza together. And Benson's "Friends and Lovers" rings in the New Year with a story of two Atlanta attorneys who are close friends--but could be more.

Genres: Romance, African American Romance

318 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

Rochelle Alers was born in Manhattan, New York, USA, where she raised. She obtained degrees in Sociology and Psychology, before started to work. She is a member of the Iota Theta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and her interests include gourmet cooking and traveling. She has traveled to countries in North, Central and South America, and Europe. She is also in accomplished in knitting, crocheting and needlepoint.

Published since 1988, today a full-time writer, has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today's most prolific and popular African-American authors of romance and women's fiction. With more than fifty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print, she is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, regularly chosen by Black Expressions Book Club, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She also wrote as Susan James and Rena McLeary.

Rochelle Alers lives in a charming hamlet on Long Island.